Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:01:06PM +, Martin Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Donald Becker wrote: > > >The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to > >replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to > >post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertis

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Brian D. Ropers-Huilman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Excellently put, as usual. While I already weighed in with support for Greg's initial "at least let it _send_ email" pitch, I am more in the RGB camp with what he says below. I never noticed this one, nor have I noticed any spam hitting this list

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Bill Broadley wrote: I'd vote for banning ALL posts with attachments, HTML, vcard, .exe. Has there ever been a useful attachment sent to the beowulf list? Possibly (I remember some pictures and the like following linux expo type thingies and might have posted a possibly us

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Donald Becker wrote: The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls. Any opinions? Dear Don, Sigh. A pain in the ass, obviou

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Broadley
Actually now that you mention it. Give me instant approval for all subscribed users (but make sure bots can't subscribe via a, er, whatever the character recognition test is called) so that lag time for posts goes from occasionally hours to usually minutes. I'd happily sign posts if that helped,

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Donald Becker wrote: The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls. Any opinions? Yes. I *far* prefer* the list format to

[Beowulf] Re: Matrix Multiply

2006-02-08 Thread Tom Elken
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Beowulf] Matrix Multiply To: beowulf@beowulf.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Guys This is a quick question regarding the xhpl benchmark. I assume you mean the HPL benchmark. xhpl is its executable name. I

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Hahn
> forum that is email based. However, I'd much prefer to just have this > list stay as it is. I'm also happy with it. thanks Don! ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Toon Knapen
Sean Dilda wrote: > > I'd really not see it go that way. I'm on a couple dozen mailing lists > all sorted to their own folders. I have one mail client I start up and > shows me all the incoming mail I have in each folder. During the day, > all I have to do is glance at thunderbird, and I know

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Sean Dilda
Donald Becker wrote: The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls. Any opinions? I'd really not see it go that way. I'm on a couple dozen ma

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:54:31AM -0800, Donald Becker wrote: > The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to > replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to > post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls. > Any opinions? I would prefer

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Brian D. Ropers-Huilman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I second Greg. Greg Lindahl said the following on 2006-02-08 14:55: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:54:31AM -0800, Donald Becker wrote: > >> The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to >> replace the mailing list. It would

Re: [Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Paulson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:54:31AM -0800, Donald Becker wrote: > > After having a near-perfect record of keeping out spam and virus > email, one slipped through yesterday. > Which is why we all have defense-in-depth, so our local scanners should hopefully have picked it up. (That said, I certa

Re: [Beowulf] Beowulf, Gentoo and Navier Stokes solvers

2006-02-08 Thread Mattijs Janssens
> RE: the navier stokes (CFD) bits If this is for CGI anyway, I was quite impressed by the Blender integrated fluid simulation facility. Limited in functionality but very cheap. Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alan, As your request is fair

[Beowulf] Matrix Multiply

2006-02-08 Thread tjue1
Hi Guys This is a quick question regarding the xhpl benchmark. Im no mathematician but im trying to understand how the benchmark operates. I would like to test my system by seeing how many FLOPS are achieved using only the Matrix Multiply. Is there a way to configure the benchmark so that only

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-08 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Donald Becker wrote: >On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > > > >>Robert G. Brown wrote: >> >> >>>Note well that for most folks, once you get a cluster node installed and >>>working, there is little incentive to EVER upgrade the OS except for >>>administrative convenience. We still have

[Beowulf] Would you sell me Firmware CD for DES-5600?

2006-02-08 Thread Tim Wakkuri
Hello Ray, I saw the following post and wondered if you ended up purchasing the DES-5600 and if so if you'd be interesting in selling me a copy of the firmware CD. Believe it or not, even though our DES-5600 is only four years old, not one D-Link web site in any country has it. Calling the compa

[Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

2006-02-08 Thread Donald Becker
After having a near-perfect record of keeping out spam and virus email, one slipped through yesterday. It's a good example of why mailing lists can't be auto-moderated. The current elaborate system requires heavy human moderation, and this message still slid past everything and was automatical

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-08 Thread Donald Becker
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > > Last time I used Scyld, it involved kickstart floppies, RARP bootup, and > a patch to apply against MPICH for recompilation with the PGI compilers. > They don't make 'em like they used to, thank God. That was quite a few years ago. We have kept the core